embankment

Example Sentences

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They located the woman about 75 feet down a steep embankment.

From Los Angeles Times

Thousands of migrants have waded through rivers, climbed walls and scrambled up embankments onto U.S. soil in recent days, hoping to be processed before midnight.

From Reuters

She was either dragged or led from the school parking lot to a nearby embankment, where she was later found wearing only her skirt and sweater with her nylons wrapped around her neck.

From Seattle Times

With Russian and Ukrainian forces squared off on opposite banks, fighters have replaced fishermen, surveillance drones circle overhead and mines line the marshy embankments.

From New York Times

A pregnant cow had to be rescued after falling down an embankment near Kilmuir on the Isle of Skye.

From BBC